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How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:11
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Gordon Parks
Starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Spike Lee, Gordon Parks
Director: Joe Angio
Director: Joe Angio
Reviews for How To Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And...
A phenomenal outline of [Melvin Van Peeble's] prolific and varied life.
The first film to fully encompass Van Peebles' long, varied and impressive career.
A warts and all bio-pic which chronicles the life of a brash Renaissance Man who, frustrated by racism in America, abandoned the U.S. for France at an early age to pursue an assortment of artistic endeavors overseas.
[Van Peebles] could surely survive a more critical and complete look at his extraordinary life and times.
The 72-year-old Melvin remains fascinating as an artist, self-promoter, and success story.
... offers a solid overview of the pioneering African-American filmmaker's wide-ranging career.
Angio's film is an excellent introduction, but it won't be long before you realize that his subject is too complex to be contained in a single admiring tribute.
How to Eat is finally nostalgic, albeit less so for Van Peebles, who at 73 remains active on multiple artistic fronts, than for a lost era when brash individualism and radical politics seemed to go hand in hand.
This documentary about the pioneering black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles is nearly as mischevious and fascinating as its subject.
Melvin Van Peebles gets the idolatrous treatment in this documentary by first-time director Joe Angio.
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